Class One: Da’as. Daas. The key to davening is actually- Davening, that means talking to G-d. Class two: “Which Jew doesn’t need to Daven?”. Often our disinterest in Davening is a lack of appreciation, understanding, and know-how. Post Seminary talk on prayer (5776/ 2016). It is time we turn it around and instead of waiting…

Class One. All the people from the city join the people in the field because by going out into the field, when the King returns to the city they go not only into the city but into the palace itself. Class Two. The desert and the people there are certainly also allowed to come into…

The 15th of Menachem Av follows the greatest Yerida (descent) and therefore ushers in the g,eatest Aliya, thus, the great celebration. When one is coerced into doing Mitzvos (and the Rambam, of course, explains that this is a real mitzva, because this is the true desire of a Yid [and even a gentile in his…

Class One. This shiur attempts to explain the differences between the four (basic) levels of Ohr Ein Sof our Ma’amar deals with 1) Lifnei Hatzimtzum (only Igul) 2) After the Tzimtzum in Ein Sof (Igul and Kav are together); 3) Atzilus (only ein Sof of Kav); 4) The NeHI that can split and come into…

Explanation for why this Mitzva (of Nesachim) comes after the story of the Spies. It’s the Ratzui and Shov after the exclusively Ratzui of the Miraglim and their generation.

Class One. 1) Ratzon creates Olomos in Himself along with space (and time), 2) Tzimtzum, first of all reveals the space, 3) Second of all by leaving over the Reshimu and removing the light completely, the Keili become the bottom and most powerful, 4) When the light comes back it is altogether a different Ohr,…

Chuka means edict but it also means engraved. This Parsha refers to all of Judaism as “Chuka” to underscore the level of service and connection associated with Chakika. There are three levels: 1) תורה שבעל פה which remains separate from the person even after he learns it. 2) תורה שבכתב which is initially separate but…

The world was perfect at creation and becomes more perfect through work: Dira BiTachtonim.

The Rebbe calls this Ma’amar of the Mitteler Rebbe a ‘wondrous Ma’amar’, It explains three levels in each and every Mitzvah: 1) Commandment (as the Soul is contained in the Nefesh HaBahamis; B’Chol Livuv’cha), 2) A promise that you’ll do it [as the Soul is by itself], 3) A story- the Mitzva (literally) does itself…